Linuxy New Year’s Resolutions
So 2009 is here at last, and not a moment too soon! Finally we can put another Holiday Season behind us and get back to work. Some of us, of course, are still recovering from the seasonal merriment; others are still pondering gifts they received. To wit: On Digg, Rekzai earned more than 3,340 Diggs and 345 comments for posting a photograph titled, “I like Linux, so my aunt sends me this for Christmas!”

3G Mobile Broadband on Fedora Core 10
KungFu Code Monkey: “The latest feature to really impress me is how easy they’ve made it to connect to the internet using a 3G mobile broadband connection.”

Tools to delete files securely in GNU/Linux
Deleting a file or reformatting a disk does not destroy your sensitive data. The data can easily be undeleted. That s a good thing if you accidentally throw something away, but what if your trying to destroy financial data, bank account passwords, or classified company information. In this article you will learn number of tools to delete files securely in ubuntu Linux

Six ways to speed up Yum on Fedora
I ve been using Fedora (Core and all) on and off for a few years now and its parsimonious attitudes to codecs notwithstanding, the thing that always reduces me to a whimpering, pleading wreck is watching Yum installing a piece of software. I can forgive its tendency to handhold and even to confabulate, but Yum moves with all the speed of a treacle flow at the North Pole. Apt-get has already done its stuff and gone home for tea but Yum is still setting the table and polishing the silver. Once you ve used Yum for a while you will know why it puts the V in verbose. Find out how to light a fire under Yum. Read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.

MD5 - The Internet has a Major Problem
Firstly, allow me to recap. A couple of days ago, I reported a presentation at the Chaos Computer Club conference in Berlin which outlined a major problem with the way Certificate Authorities handle message hashing, essentially this attack relied on well-known problems with the MD5 hash algorithm. Problems based on hash collisions, which were previously considered to be theoretical having been discovered in 2004, were now well-lodged within the domain of reality.

Novell Calls Off BrainShare 2009
Novell has canceled its 2009 BrainShare, the annual conference that this year drew 5,500 to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City. The Waltham, Mass.-based company, whose largest operation is in Provo, Utah, with about 1,200 employees, said many of its customers were saying economic conditions would keep them from traveling to Utah in March of next year.

MD5 Considered Harmful (and what that means to you)
emmajane’s blog: “You know the lock icon in your browser that tells you your banking Web site is safe and you are secure? As of yesterday we’ve learned this icon may be meaningless.”